PQ Responses - July 7th 2020

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PQ 14103-20 - Éamon Ó Cuív

To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE universal guidelines on bras, prostheses and wigs will be published; the funding to be allocated for the implementation of the guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 14357-20 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of procedures, treatments and surgeries carried out under the Covid-19 private hospital deal by hospital in tabular form

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PQ 13720-20 - Mary Butler

To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the reopening of maternity classes including breast feeding and antenatal classes in Cork University Maternity Hospital; his views on the effects postponements and cancellations of such classes is having on pregnant women in preparing for the birth of their child; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 13762-20 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children suffering with scoliosis awaiting a procedure (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 13776-20 - Emer Higgins

To ask the Minister for Health the amount made available by the HSE to organisations through National Lottery funding in 2010; the amount that will be made available by the HSE to organisations through National Lottery funding in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 13793-20 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the schools vaccine programme; if students that would ordinarily have received vaccinations but did not due to Covid-19 will receive their vaccines in the autumn roll out of vaccinations nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 13826-20 - James Browne

To ask the Minister for Health the steps taken and steps planned in respect of each Roscommon mental health services report recommendation; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 13866-20 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE and private home support staff that were tested for Covid-19 by county; the number that remain to be tested by county in tabular form in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 13892-20 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the waiting lists for home support hours in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 13895-20 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health when a detailed roadmap for services for persons with disabilites will be published to give service users and their families clarity on the resumption of normal services; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 13903-20 - John Brady

To ask the Minister for Health his plans for an old HSE building (details supplied) now that the new primary care centre in Bray, County Wicklow is fully constructed and occupied; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 13912-20 - Patrick Costello

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the urgent need for biannual access to neurologists for persons with Parkinson’s disease, more nurse specialists and referrals of all patients with the disease to services such as physiotherapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy and dietetics; and if he will address the current situation regarding access to these services

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PQ 13915-20 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the wait times for an appointment with an addiction counsellor by county within the Saolta group; the number of persons on each list; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 13944-20 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the closures of mental health facilities by county in the past 20 years; and the amount returned from mental health budgets by county to the HSE since 2010 -

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PQ 13946-20 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the full facts regarding the Be on Call for Ireland campaign launched by the HSE; the number of trained healthcare professionals that responded across each discipline; the number that actually returned home; the locations they were deployed to; the number across each of those disciplines that remain in service; the number in each discipline that have been and will be retained and permanently employed in the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14000-20 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health if all public orthodontic services will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14016-20 - Anne Rabbitte

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for orthodontic work in County Galway by waiting periods of 0 to 6 months and 1 to 2, 3 to 4, 4 to 5 and over 5 years, respectively in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 14019-20 - Anne Rabbitte

To ask the Minister for Health the reason teenagers are being left to stand outside while waiting to be seen in the CAMHS unit at Merlin Park Hospital, Galway; if a temporary structure could be put in place to help facilitate socially distanced queuing that is less exposed; the protocol in place for persons left waiting at the unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14040-20 - Anne Rabbitte

To ask the Minister for Health if there is a dedicated dementia unit in St. Brendan’s, Loughrea, County Galway; if so, if the unit is accepting new patients; if not, when it will be accepting new patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14121-20 - Sean Canney

To ask the Minister for Health when he envisages diagnostic equipment will be installed in the primary care centre in Tuam, County Galway in view of the fact his predecessor allocated a sum of €770,000 for the installation of such facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14144-20 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the status of PPE provision and financial support for the homecare sector in view of the importance of the service to older persons in general but also in particular in further view of the severe implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for older persons; his plans for the same; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 14155-20 - Louise O'Reilly.

To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant vacancies across the public health service; and his plans to recruit consultants to fill these vacancies

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PQ 14189-20 - Louise O Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the purchase date of each CT scanner in hospitals here; and the sell-by date of each scanner

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PQ 14190-20 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of CT scanners per million of the population; the medically indicated number Ireland should have to deliver productive efficiency; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14191-20 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allow staff recruitment processes to be devolved to local and hospital level.

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PQ 14192-20 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the average recruitment time for a nurse to a public hospital in 2019.

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PQ 14193-20 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the average recruitment time for a doctor to a public hospital in 2019

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PQ 14194-20 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the average radiographer recruitment time for a doctor to a public hospital in 2019

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PQ 14196-20 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated average theatre, operation and treatment time that will be lost per 12 hour period due to the need to clean theatres and suites after each procedure and treatment to ensure adherence to Covid-19 infection control measures.

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PQ 14197-20 - Maurice Quinlivan

To ask the Minister for Health the resources that will be made available to increase capacity in the public health sector for access to diagnostics and the urgent recommencement of cancer screening programmes and access to time critical reviews for patients on surgical waiting lists

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PQ 14202-20 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the funding that has been made available to mental health services for additional costs incurred to date due to the Covid-19 crisis; the additional funding being made available for mental health services to return to providing services; the proportion of the overall additional HSE spend on Covid-19 for mental health; his views on whether mental health services will achieve a balanced budget in 2020 by absorbing the additional costs associated with Covid-19; the reason St. James’s Hospital has not yet implemented the national clinical programme for self-harm in view of the fact that the homeless are a particularly vulnerable group; and if the HSE will reinstate the funding which was withdrawn at the end of 2019 for the multidisciplinary mental health team for the homeless in south central areas of Dublin in view of the expected post-Covid-19 mental health wave

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PQ 14203-20 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health if measures will be put in place to maintain financial support for the homecare sector in view of the fact the latest HSE pay policy came to an end on 31 May 2020

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PQ 14224-20 - Jackie Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health when children’s dental services will be restored to St. Mary’s Hospital, Thurles, County Tipperary after being relocated to Nenagh Hospital, Nenagh, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14240-20 - Carol Nolan

To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to general practitioners for the provision of termination of pregnancy services in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 14241-20 - Carol Nolan

To ask the Minister for Health the measures and supports in place to reduce the number of abortions from the recorded 6,666 abortions that took place in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 14250-20 - Noel Grealish

To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts vacant in CHO2; the number of vacant posts in the Saolta Hospital Group; the breakdown of the vacant posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14257-20 - Peter Burke

To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will review the fact that the counselling doctorate offered by TCD and fully recognised and accredited by an organisation (details supplied) does not provide payment to students unlike the doctorate in clinical psychology which is offered by the five main Irish universities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14287-20 - Jackie Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health when ShannonDoc services will reopen at St. Mary’s Hospital, Thurles, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14299-20 - Thomas Pringle

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to progress the implementation of eating disorder teams in CHOs; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14300-20 - Thomas Pringle

To ask the Minister for Health the number of applicants signed up for the Be On Call for Ireland initiative; the number of applicants deployed in CHO1 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14321-20 - Mattie McGrath

To ask the Minister for Health when full disability services will resume in County Tipperary for both adult and child disability services; the reason for the delay; the services that have resumed; the supports in place for those with special needs that are regressing as a result of closure of all services; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 14349-20 - Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

To ask the Minister for Health the data from maternity and other hospitals relating to a reduction in the number of preterm births to date in 2020 relative to the equivalent period in previous years; if this has possible significant implications for maternal and neonatal health and related health advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14358-20 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the average bed occupancy of hospitals over the course of the Covid-19 private hospital deal by hospital in tabular form

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PQ 14387-20 - Cian O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health the counties in which PrEP is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14403-20 - Verona Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health when suitable IT equipment and systems will be installed at a location (details supplied) to properly access records and allow the services to support CAMHS Wexford function efficiently; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14422-20 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health when paediatric physiotherapy services will resume in a Dungloe Community Hospital, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 14432 20 - Mary Lou McDonald

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the north east inner city initiative addiction unit and associated staff hires

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PQ 14440-20 - Mary Lou McDonald

To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the HSE CHO9 full year budget for addiction services as of 1 January 2020; and if CHO9 has reallocated €700,000 from the north east inner city initiative addiction services 2020 budget line to provide for an overspend in homeless related services.

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PQ 14441-20 - Mary Lou McDonald

To ask the Minister for Health the number of residential addiction related stabilisation, step-down and recovery beds in HSE CHO9 in tabular form

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PQ 14451-20 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time laboratory scientists employed at Connolly Hospital

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PQ 14465-20 - Jennifer Whitmore

To ask the Minister for Health in the context of Covid-19 in relation to the recent guidelines requiring patients to quarantine before surgeries if this includes elected and emergency c-sections in maternity hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14471-20 - Jennifer Whitmore

To ask the Minister for Health the recruitment plans in place to address the staffing crisis in child psychology teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 14473-20 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health if advice was provided to healthcare workers and or patients that they should not use commercial launderettes or dry cleaners during any stage of the Covid-19 pandemic; the scientific basis of such advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14474-20 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health if Covid-19 specific advice, guidance or standards were provided to commercial launderettes or dry cleaners; if so, if he will provide copy of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 14480-20 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health when Lisadell day services, Mullingar, County Westmeath will reopen for day care services for those that due to profound disability urgently require this reopening; the activities which may not return; if a reduced amount of attending hours is envisaged upon reopening; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 14483-20 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health when day care services will reopen; when each day care service in counties Longford and Westmeath will reopen; when restrictions will be implemented to ensure adherence to health; the activities which may not return; if a reduced amount of attending hours is envisaged upon reopening; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14507-20 - Réada Cronin

To ask the Minister for Health if the district nurse service in Maynooth, County Kildare will be returning to the Maynooth health centre in the Covid-19 reopening arrangements; his plans to upgrade the building in which the centre is housed to bring its infrastructural standards into line with the excellence of the medical service offered there; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 14509-20 - Réada Cronin

To ask the Minister for Health if pulmonary rehabilitation will be widely and readily available for patients whose pulmonary health is affected by Covid-19; if there are the facilities, technology and personnel available to make this therapy and resource widely available to patients both in hospitals and the community setting in view of the high rate of respiratory disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 14559-20 - Richard Boyd Barrett

To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that nurses and midwives that were awarded a pay rise after the industrial action of Spring 2019 are now in receipt of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 14560-20 - Richard Boyd Barret

To ask the Minister for Health the details of the agreement between his Department and a recruitment company (details supplied) and other recruitment agencies with regard to the Be On Call for Ireland initiative; the fee paid to the agency; the number of persons that were recruited; the nature of the contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ Responses - July 7th 2020